STRATEGIC RESEARCH ON SOCIAL PROBLEMS IN IRAN
Year:2020 | Volume:8 | Issue:4 (27)|Papers Count:7

Introduction The world is pace with the processes of globalization. Iran is not apart from this globalizing process and has been involved in many trends, including the phenomenon of pyramid companies (network marketing). This issues a new style of modern business, with its new work in the late of 70s Hijri (or in the early 80s) with companies such as Goldquest and Goldmine in Iran. Their activities created very crucial negative effects to the public, the community and economic body of the country and made a constitutional crisis in the country’ s atmosphere. Finally, the discretion of the legal authorities banned their activities in the country. The business, however, is now a few years with a new light in the face by removing the same obstacles in the country with a legal permit. While the country’ s current state is worse than the previous decade (80s) in terms of economic difficulties, the sharp recession, the problems of country’ s active population and thousands of fundamental problems whose main origins go back to the economy. On the other hand, it is expected that this kind of trade problems and barriers in the past and may be solved to a great extent, but we are witnessing difficulties and obstacles. The high rate of the young population of the country has been mentioned in recent years by the social sciences thinkers. According to the demographic theory of open window of population, Iran is a highly sensitive site in the region as well as inside the country due to its young population, that, if taken in the right direction, it would promote the country and otherwise damage. This high percentages, despite university education, face a demographic inflation of youth by failing to attract the labor market. Based on different studies, they report a high percentage of frustration, depression, and so on. On the other hand, in recent years, we see major changes in the values and attitudes of Iranian youth for different reasons, including the growth and development of communication and technologies. Thus, the characteristics of social context in Iran have different forms of development for boosting networks. The prevalence of globalization and its ideology, the sudden rise of population and unemployment, social networks, and strong local regions (derived from pre modern times) have all contributed to the prevalence of pyramid-based enterprises (network marketing), which have the slogan of acquiring huge fortunes in a short period of time: This study investigates how profit maximization strategies are implemented in pyramid companies and what the consequences of these strategies are...

Introduction Today, body management and the variables influencing it tend to be one of the most important topics in sociology. The body is not merely a biological and psychological aspect, but rather is a socially constructed phenomenon. The body should be regarded as a pivot that makes it possible for humans to understand the world. It is through the body that the individual assumes the essence of his or her existence according to social and cultural conditions, age, gender, and personality. The development of nutrition, health and sports technologies along with independence of operation, intense consumerism, the importance of youth and the growing interest in young and beautiful bodies have greatly been influenced by the popular culture of new media. These issues have made body a central theme in the social and cultural studies of contemporary society. Media in advertising and virtual space with a variety of advertising patterns, especially in sports clubs, instill a need for beauty and fitness among their target audience, mainly teenagers and young adults...

Introduction Since the university is an academic and cultural institution as well as the pioneer of cultural, social, and economic changes in every society, ethics has been established as a mission to the major universities in the world. Therefore, university deans will build a network of mutual and transcendent relationships that will improve the performance of employees and organizations by observing the principles of ethical leadership. Ethical leaders will make the work meaningful and create work dependency and engagement for their employees. So, the university employees will feel and abide by observing leaders' ethical behaviors regarding work and organization. The ethical behaviors of the deans are an important factor in the development of their employees' engagement and loyalty to the university. So, in this study, the role of ethical leadership in organizational loyalty is studied with the mediation of the employees’ work engagement as an issue in the field of ethics in the management of the academic human resources...

Introduction Iranian society is full of various social issues. The issues such as poverty, discrimination, inflation, corruption and delinquency, addiction and inefficiency are all part of the constant preoccupations of community members. Among the elites, there are many definitions of social issues. Wright Mills defines the social issue with four characteristics of structural origin, generality, being threating, and structural solution (in Yousefi & Akbari, 2012). Rwomire (2001) considers it to be an undesirable phenomenon that is viewed intolerable by a significant number of the community members and collective action is necessary to correct it. Meanwhile, one of the major areas of social issues is in cinema, and recognizing social issues in the form of image and pictures especially in cinema works can considerably help reduce psychological ambiguities in the field of social issues since “ cinema movies are the important cultural source for understanding nature and causes of social deviances” (Soltani Gard Faramarzi, 2016). Review of the related literature suggests that although cinema works have addressed different issues and harms, these works lack a comprehensive and holistic representation of the issues and they have generally pursued different social issues in a scattered manner. Thus, a clear and comprehensive picture of the relationship between Iranian cinema and social issues cannot be achieved. Hence, the present study attempts to analyze comprehensively social issues in the highestgrossing movies of Iranian cinema and pursues the goal of how social issues are portrayed in Iranian cinema after the Islamic Revolution...

Introduction Contents of the campaign items of the Islamic City Council Elections candidates, which have inherently understood the city through the eyes of the citizens, contain explicit and implicit communication messages indicating that how urban issues are administered by the managers. Therefore, this study aims to explore major objectives and strategic themes hidden in the contents of campaign items of the fifth Islamic City Council Elections’ candidates of Bojnord based on four perspectives of balanced scorecard by using both quantitative and qualitative content analysis...

Introduction Superstition as a cultural category in any society is one of the aspects of the spiritual culture of that society that has social damages and psychological consequences. Also, it affects every stratum of society in a variety of ways and forms appropriate to time and place. Although the prevalence of supernaturalism seems to decrease with the increase in the level of literacy and public culture of the society, even modern humans cannot completely reject or actually get rid of superstition. Superstition has its special place in nations, within them there are still some people who are following the superstitions of their previous generations and transferring these superstitions to their next generation. In fact, in the mind of each human there are beliefs that are incompatible with any scientific logic and that their beliefs cannot be understood with any rational justification. But, these beliefs exist and sometimes find functions in life that can change the course of one’ s life. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of social and psychological security on the tendency toward superstition among Isfahan University students. Research showed that although students were the educated and the future-maker group of the country, superstitious beliefs have always been found among them. The theoretical framework for the research has been based on theories of Pareto’ s Irrationality, Weber's Traditional and Irrational Behavior, Maslow's sense of psychological security, and Ingelhart's Social Security. Superstition has become widespread in response to the insecurities of individuals in life. In fact, it is an inevitable attempt to influence the future course of events to make things enjoyable...